Count every vote - until it's inconvenient...

A salon.com article details the anger that many voters in Florida are feeling over the DNC's decision to disenfranchise the primary voters of Michigan and Florida.

I'm not sure how the Democrats can really survive this. They've staked a tremendous amount of political capital on the idea of disenfranchising the voters of both Michigan and Florida. How can they expect to not take a pounding by the independents in both states when the general election comes around? It's not like we're talking about safely Democratic states, either. Both have been close states in each of the past two elections. Could the Democrats really afford to lose both states in a national election?

Another election fiasco in Florida?
The Democratic Party is doing battle - with itself over the state's role in the primaries. Some members say it could cost the party in November 2008.
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PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. - Amid the swimming pools and shuffleboards, a new sense of outrage is buzzing through condo land. Democratic activist Adele Berger began to hear about it at her regular, eight-deck rummy game in Century Village, an expansive, historically Jewish community of New York retirees. "People have been coming over and asking me, "What's going on, Adele? What's the purpose of voting if it won't be counted? And that's sad, that's sad."

The head of the community's Democratic club, Sophie Bock, is hearing the same thing, forcing her to reassure residents in the monthly newsletter that their presidential primary vote will count -- at least symbolically. "I am trying to make nicey-nicey, because I can't stand it when people say, "I don't want to vote. My vote won't be counted." Privately, however, she is as angry as her club members, so angry that she has even begun deleting fundraising e-mails from Howard Dean and the Democratic National Committee before reading them.